The news from Rio de Janeiro was not encouraging from an Indian perspective barring one exceptional performance from gymnast Dipa Karmakar+ , who qualified for the finals of the vault event. India's contingent struggled to produce dominant performances at the Olympics for the second day running.

Shuttlers PV Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth made winning starts in their women's and men's singles badminton campaign and were the only winners in India's Olympic contingent in Rio de Janeiro.

Deepika Kumari took big strides in putting behind the failure of India's women's archery team by progressing into the pre-quarters of the individual event. Deepika's success followed Bombayla Devi's, which saw her enter the pre-quarters by beating Austrian archer Laurence Baldauff and world No 10 Lin Shin-Chia by identical 6-2 margins.